More Kony Shit

[LastPoet]

That's not entirely fair, its not wrong to have a healthy amount of skepticism about where your money is going.
I simply do not trust evangelical christians to spend money in a purely secular fashion. Sue me.. they don't have a great track record in not pulling a big con.

Read my post with a bit more attention, I don't care if you don't support the campaign, its up to you, and no need to feel bad for not adhering to it. Other than that I fail to see the reason why you bring religion into this, so where are you getting at?

Great, sounds good.. awareness of what? Uganda? Weird.. they hardly mention Uganda apart from the Kony video.
Weird cult-ish awareness of a "fourth estate" program for children.. okay... well.. fine...
For all the money raised.. they don't actually speak about Uganda a whole lot, the money seems mostly wasted APART from the Kony video. Why shouldn't I be skeptical. People are aware, great, now how are you spending the millions of dollars to make us MORE aware of the issue? Why not start spending some on solving the problem, instead of talking about it.

Clearly you misunderstood the whole point of the campaign, it is not about a nation, it is about the people that are being abused by the guy. Again, you are free to not participate, noone said you'd be a lesser person for doing so, so whats the problem?

I refuse to apologise for not getting behind this campaign. There is nothing wrong with the message, and I don't claim it is party to any wrong doing. However, I'm not convinced that appeal to hollywood is the way forward. Firstly.. they are already trying to catch Kony, those trying to catch Kony, are guilty of almost equivalent human rights abuses, and additional US troops in a volatile country might not be the answer here.

Noone asked for your apology, you don't like it? Go somewhere else. Noone is judging you, and it seems to me you are the one that somehow feels the need to apologize. Don't care, if you have better ways to spend your money, then so be it, perhaps you could show us what are those ways so we can help if we can. Unless you have evidence that the campaign is indeed a scam, don't bother to rehiterate your apologetics. Your opinion on how this problem should be adressed has no value without data to support it, unless your saying nothing should be done, in that case I vehemently disagree.

Only by maintaining a skeptical eye on slick campaigns like this, can we apply pressure that the funds raised are spent wisely. Blindly giving money because a video had a cute kid calling him a bad man, is not the best use of your time and effort for promoting good in the world.

Ok, now you made a claim that it is a 'slick' campaign, for that, I'll ask for evidence. But while you're getting that, you can also think in a better way to solve the problem. Its easy to destroy initiatives, but do you have better options? As a personal example, I can say that I don't like the capitalist model, but you know why I don't just rant on about it? Because I don't have anything better to provide in return.